COVID 9-11: A New Pearl Harbour

"Hey, it (Covid19) has killed more people than Pearl Harbour. And it has killed more people than the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center was close to 3,000. Well, we are gonna beat that by many times, unfortunately. So, yeah. We view it as a war,"

This was part of US president Donald Trump's briefing to a group of nurses in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday. For anyone paying attention, Trump's statement should spell out the US administration's weaponisation of the COVID19 pandemic with crystal clarity.

Long before the fateful events of September 11, 2001, a group of neoconservative ideologues fondly referred to by Bush 41 as the crazies in the basement of the Pentagon had mapped out a strategy for US hegemony in the coming century - one which involved the repudiation of all norms of international relations and the use of unilateral force to impose "American values" upon a world in flux after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Enabling this plan would require a catalysing event; in their exact words, a New Pearl Harbour.

China is now universally acknowledged as the ascendant global superpower, and as such poses and existential threat to US economic and military hegemony. Trump's characterisation of the Covid19 pandemic as a Pearl Harbour like “attack” sets the stage for retribution against China in precisely the manner in which 9-11 was used to frame Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Somalia and Iran as targets of US aggression in the wake of the 2001 attacks. Rather than simple electioneering as some commentators suggest, it is clear that the current pandemic is being weaponised in the service of long term US geopolitical goals.

A recent editorial in Strategic Culture sums this up succinctly:

"Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are seen as tipping points that led America into wars. There is substantial evidence that both events were to some degree contrived by U.S. planners in order to serve as pretexts for war and pursuit of imperial objectives. The Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, came after years of provocative trade embargo on Japan; and when the Japanese bombed the U.S. naval base in Hawaii it wasn’t really a “surprise”. The event led America into World War Two whose postwar order served Washington’s geopolitical interests for subsequent decades, arguably until only recently since when the global auspices of “Pax Americana” have become challenged by the ascent of China as an economic power."

But maybe we are being too naive in simply framing Covid19 as another Pearl Harbour; another 9-11. Twenty years on, with the same cabal of crazies firmly in control of US foreign policy, perhaps we could consider it rather as a continuation of the original September 11 conspiracy. Going back to the perpetrators' manifesto - the PNAC document entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses" - the stated objective was and is to enforce US hegemony on a world radically redesigned according to globalist principles.

Thierry Meyssan writes:

 "The initial plan, conceived more than 20 years ago around the head of the pharmaceutical laboratory Gilead Science, Donald Rumsfeld, planned to adapt the United States to the global financialisation of the economy. It was a question of reorganising the planet by dividing the tasks of each person geographically. Areas not yet integrated into the global economy would be deprived of a state and become mere reservoirs of raw materials; developed areas (including the European Union, Russia and China) would be responsible for production; and the United States alone would provide the world’s arms and police industry."

The parallels between Covid19 and 9-11 go well beyond laying the groundwork for soft and even hard power deployment toward China. 9-11 was used to create a surveillance state and launch an endless 'War on Terror' which would give virtually unlimited money and power to the arms industry while suspending the rule of law at home and abroad. Similarly, Covid19 is being used to normalise 'contact tracing' via mobile phone apps while they declare a war on a virus which we are told is constantly mutating - in other words, another endless war, which is set to rake in trillions, this time for the pharmaceutical industry as new mandatory vaccination regimes are rolled out across the board. Meanwhile a broader plan is afoot to reorganise the global economy by turning us into data commodities for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Could Covid19 be seen as 9-11 on a global scale?

A tangled web emerges when we begin to look at the driving forces behind US imperialism. The parallels and interconnections between Big Oil and Big Pharma, between Covid19 and the Rumsfeld Doctrine, between Gilead Sciences, Inc. and the Wuhan Institute of Virology all demand honest investigative research if we are to really begin to explore the current situation and all that it portends.

As an historical sidebar, John D. Rockefeller was a businessman turned "philanthropist" who went on to make a name in the pharmaceutical industry after losing his oil monopoly over violation of anti-trust laws. Rockefeller was known for his endowments to educational and public health causes, and generous patronage of science and the arts. (Long considered one of the most powerful families in America, the Rockefellers not only donated the land upon which the United Nations headquarters sits, but were also instrumental in the building of the World Trade Center in the late 1960s.) It turns out that Bill Gates' backstory bears an uncanny resemblance. After facing a similar legal challenge in the case of United States v. Microsoft Corp 2001, Gates has since divested his shares in the tech giant and is now positioning himself to take over the steering of World Health Organisation. In 1902 John D. Rockefeller founded the General Education Board. Today Gates is said to be partnering with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to re-imagine public education in the wake of the pandemic. Is this a triumph of American entrepreneurship, or a transnational corporate coup d'etat? As the saying goes, we report, you decide.